Re: replacing debs with locally compiled packages
>
> This one's a quickie. Seems to me that if I want to replace a package
> I've already installed with the distro (slink) with my own build of the
> source, I should just be able to remove (w/o purging configs) the package
> using dselect/dpkg and then go ahead and install my own build.
>
> Is there any possibility for hosing myself with this method? For example,
> right now I want to replace my Enlightenment 0.15 with the 0.16 source.
> I'm expecting to be able to just remove the old package and install the
> new one by hand. Nothing wrong with this, right? I've done this before
> with some smaller packages but never with anything as significant as a
> window manager.
>
> TIA.
Not sure about WM, but I do this with AfterStep about every time new devel
version comes out. And it works perfectly.
Andrew
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